fionn life

Tuesday, on Tuesday we only had to meet at the pier in carrey-le-route for 9:00am which gave us an extra hour in bed something i am very grateful for. the procedure was slightly different from the day before. we unpacked all of the gear necessary for dive and loaded it onto the rib making sure everything was fastness on tightly enough to prevent it going over board on the journey. the journey was much longer on Tuesday it was roughly 40 minutes to a much smaller bay with only a few houses and boats in it. we were briefed by the head diving instructor Xavier Thibaut on what exercises we need to complete and how we were going to carry them out. the exercises we need to do was to remove our mask underwater and then throw it away making sure to keep our eyes open the whole time so we didn't lose our mask. the second exercise was to remove our regulator partially so that half of the mouthpiece was in our mouth and half wasn't. we did this exercise so that in case during a dive if o

I arrived at the pier in carrey-le-rouet at 8:00 am. after roughly an hour fitting and checking the gear we headed out on the boat for our first diving session. the rib was much bigger than I expected with a 300 horse power Yamaha engine at the rear. once we arrived in the bay Calanque du cap rousset a 15 minute boat journey. we were briefed on the plan for this morning which would involve a three hundred metre swim to and from the boat, followed by a one on one lesson with one of the three diving instructors. with them we would complete two exercises. 1. remove our regulator (tube that allows us to breathe under water) and put back into our mouth. 2. remove our mask, put it back on and clear any water inside it. I found the first exercise easy but struggled with the second and took two attempts at completing it. after everyone completed their exercises we headed back to the pier. all the gear had to be rinsed down to try and get rid of the salt water including the jackets that hol

this is my first post on my blog. on Saturday I will be flying out of Dublin airport to Nice airport. I'm going to Marseille for two weeks where I will be doing the padi open water diving course